Fangio?
Very cool sounding answer
. The guy was a great driver indeed, but didn't his career last like 8 (phht!) years ?
He did dominate in that time, when his neck wasn't broken, but it was an eight year period for gods sake.
Didn't he throw up his hands and quit driving formula one because his car wasn't competitive that year? (1958)
Lets see, ironhead won his first winston cup in his
2nd year. He was competitive over a twenty year period. He carried the sport from one era to another. Hell, he finished #2 in the points last year, at the age of 49! Earnhardt is a legitamite contender if your talking about the best
driver of all time. Why wouldn't he be? And come up with something other than he drives NASCAR, or he was a redneck, talked funny, went hunting, etc. If you don't think winston cup racing is one of the most (if not the most) competitive racing there is, your head's in the sand bud.
In a typical winston cup race, the cars are close, meaning the drivers are actually
racing each other, scratching, clawing for position. Not a half lap ahead of the #2 guy.
Just because formula one, CART, IRL, etc. etc. outperform winston cup cars, doesn't mean the drivers are automatically better drivers, or that the racing is any better. It just means their cars are faster, thats it.
Oh yah, BTW, Dale Earnhardt jr. and sr. teamed up and finished 2nd (or was it 3rd?) in the 24 hrs. of Daytona, just a couple weeks ago. Their first race ever in that kind of car.
